What a pleasure it was to take part in the annual Epworth Medical Foundation Race Day this month.
GJK Facility Services was the major event sponsor once again and this year, the assembled guests raised important funds to purchase a Trident Imaging System to be used by surgeons at Epworth HealthCare to treat patients with breast cancer.
The Trident allows surgeons to take images of tumours while still in the operating theatre, in real time. This in turn enables them to determine whether a the cancerous tumours have been fully removed from the healthy tissue. By reducing the patients’ time in the operating theatre and under anaesthesia, this technology improves outcomes, wellbeing and recovery times for patients.
A representative from Epworth Medical Foundation, Chloe Rowarth, shared a little more about the Trident Imaging System with me after the event.
“This high-tech equipment will be used every day by our breast cancer surgeons in our operating theatres,” she said. “By taking an outer specimen of the tumour and testing it in the Trident Imaging System in theatre, our surgeons can immediately and accurately determine if enough margin has been taken. This means the best result can be achieved for our breast cancer patients within the shortest period of time.”
I was thrilled to be part of this event, and of the outstanding efforts that my wife Jaqui Maree and her colleagues on the Epworth Special Events Committee put into making it such a success.
To quote Chloe one again, “This is going to make the world of difference for our breast cancer patients and the surgeons who care for them, as specimens are tested there and then in the theatre, hastening the length of time in surgery and enabling a faster recovery.”
